Oldham's most celebrated musical son, William Walton, was in his prime when he completed his First Symphony in 1935 (commissioned and premiered by Hamilton Harty) and his Violin Concerto in 1939 ...

Among the many joys in Wednesday night's splendid performance of the William Walton Violin Concerto by Alexander Barantschik and the San Francisco Symphony was the chance to hear a vehicle and soloist ...

There was a bit of us versus them at last Tuesday’s Prom. Lancashire lads Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and William Walton battled it out with Finnish heavyweight Jean Sibelius. The opening moves came from ...

Marked by Kristallnacht, the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II, the 1930s were an unquestionably important historical decade. But because of that turmoil or perhaps despite it, those ...

Conductor Donald Runnicles perfroms with The Dallas Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. Ashley Landis - Staff Photographer Concertmaster Alexander ...

To mark the centenary of the birth of the late composer Sir William Walton the BBC World Service spoke to his widow about his life and work. From his stirring Coronation march the Crown Imperial, ...

William Walton is widely regarded as one of our greatest composers. But, wonders Norman Lebrecht, was he in fact an archetypal English failure - with a fatal love of the high life? STAND by for a ...